Solar Energy - problems, challenges, issues
The case for Optimism (vs. Pessimism)
Reading Science Fiction can help predict / prevent the future
Optimistic, Good Trends in Society, History
Robotics and Automation - research, trends
A collection of research from the “ Our World in Data” website
IPFS and the Future of the Internet
Satellites and the Future of the Internet
History of the Internet
A collection of articles and videos looking at forces shaping the Internet
a collection of articles about 'The Inevitable', A book by Kevin Kelly
a collection of articles about AGI - Artificial General Intelligence - Progress and Predictions
Research: brain-computer interfaces - Neuralink and Elon Musk
a collection of articles about Using AI and Data science
A collection of articles and videos looking at forces shaping the Internet
a collection of articles and videos about Kai-Fu Lee , an AI researcher and VC based in China, T...
A collection of articles and videos looking at forces shaping the Internet
The baby-bust economy; how declining birth rates will change the world. What might change the world’s dire demographic trajectory? | Leaders (2023)
Tech is increasingly divorced from the real economy thanks to the COVID hangover and Apple’s App Tracking Transparency (2023)
Or why I’m coming out as an impatient optimist. (2022)
Kevin Kelly is the founder of Wired Magazine and author of several books, among them The Inevitable. For Warp News he presents his case for optimism. (2021)
The theme of Enlightenment Now is contained in its subtitle: it is that reason, science and humanism lead to progress. The corollary is: keep it up! (2018)
Why it's worth trying to make the world more optimistic Optimism is more useful than pessimism. But pessimism is more pervasive than it has a ri... (2022)
To stave off national stagnation in a post-COVID world, technologists need to build companies that tackle America's biggest problems head-on. (2022)
The pandemic is not quite over, but we are getting used to its inconveniences. What disaster will be next? An antibiotic-resistant strain of the bu... (2021)
Claims that the world has only 100, 60, or even 30 years of harvests left often hit the headlines. These claims are overblown, but soil erosion is ... (2021)
Elon Musk -founded Neuralink has made headlines over the past many years around it efforts to develop a new kind of interface between the human bra... (2020)
Mitigation can buy us time, but only suppression can get us to where we need to be. While many watched the coronavirus spread across the globe w... (2020)
In an analysis published Tuesday, Stanford’s John P.A. Ioannidis — co-director of the university’s Meta-Research Innovation Center and ... (2020)
It’ll sap funding and political will—but actually, it should. the fear is that the highly contagious coronavirus could complicate the challenges... (2020)
Social distancing is here to stay for much more than a few weeks. It will upend our way of life, in some ways forever. To stop coronavirus we wi... (2020)
Put on your VR headset and have a conversation with your AI. “It’s time to buy a dress for tomorrow’s event” is all you have to say. (2019)
The mission of MIT Technology Review is to bring about better-informed and more conscious decisions about technology through authoritative, influen... (2020)
In the last 5-6 years, machine learning has gone from ‘crazy idea from the 1980s’ to ‘software’. That has come with several waves of deployment and... (2019)
Environmental scientist Jesse Ausubel remembers the moment his research trajectory changed. Over dinner one night in 1987, his friend and (2019)
If you want to know more about how the future will unfold reading The Inevitable by Kevin Kelly should be your very first step. Understand the key ... (2019)
Many popular perceptions about the modern labour market are wrong (2019)
The big-data makeover of humanity could be a recipe for disaster. "Just a few years ago Yuval Noah Harari was an obscure Israeli historian wit... (2019)
AI can flag people based on their clothing or behavior, identify people's emotions, and find people who are acting "unusual." (2019)
Russia is the latest country to try to find ways to police its online borders, sparking the end of the internet as we know it (2019)
This tweet made me think a lot: First of all, as much as I hate this idea, I think this notion is correct. This trend has been happening for a long... (2019)
Until now, the kind of self-learning artificial intelligence that’s led to advances in self-driving cars, computer vision, and natural language pro... (2019)
In public, executives wring their hands over automation’s negative consequences for workers. In private, they talk about how they are racing to aut... (2019)
A journey through the world of AI showcasing how AI will potentially benefit society and the industries increasingly prominent role in business AI’... (2019)
This post explores the differences between software tools and services; how the stateful nature of software services led them to be closed; and pos... (2019)
While already used on a wider basis in China, we will see facial recognition systems launched in the U.S. on a test-basis in large public venues in... (2019)
In a new a16z podcast with the venture firm’s founders Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, there’s a lot to enjoy, from Andreessen’s TV show recommen... (2019)
World On Fire: Right-wing populism is surging worldwide, in places as diverse as India, the Netherlands, Argentina, France and the United States. W... (2024)
As CTO of OpenAI, Mira Murati oversaw the development and release of GPT-4 and ChatGPT. Here she tells Martin Casado the story behind the release o... (2023)
Thanks for an amazing year here on YouTube! It's been really incredible watching the channel grow so much this year. Really excited for what 2022 h... (2022)
Recode Published on Jun 11, 2019 At Recode by Vox’s 2019 Code Conference, Bond partner Mary Meeker released her slides in rapid succession, cov... (2019)
The Verge Published on Mar 6, 2019 AI in video games is very different than the AI in self-driving cars, smart home devices, and natural language... (2019)
THINK Global School Published on Dec 1, 2015 In part 5 of a 6-part lecture, Hans Rosling uses statistics to give an overview of population growth... (2019)
Buying a home is in many ways the pinnacle of the American dream. And yet the way things work today, it's a painful process. Real estate agents, br... (2018)
In his now annual state-of-innovation talk at the a16z Summit in November 2018, Andreessen Horowitz’ Benedict Evans walks through where we are now ... (2018)
Web Summit Published on Nov 7, 2018 For the past 60 years, despite all the setbacks, neural networks have steadily improved. This talk from Gre... (2018)
Bill Gates recently read Hans Rosling's new book "Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World—and Why Things Are Better Than You Think." I... (2018)
VICE News Published on Apr 20, 2018 Bitcoin’s emergence as a global digital currency has been as revolutionary as it has been erratic. But whil... (2018)
This is a talk by Ray Kurzweil for course 6.S099: Artificial General Intelligence. For this entire recording, Ray did not use slides, so the video ... (2018)
a16z, Published on Aug 5, 2017: "Benedict Evans describes "the s-curve” in the life cycle of technology innovation, and why it’s important. Techno... (2017)
a16z talk with a look at trends in technologies: “The personal computer S-curve gave us 1.5 billion PCs and 3 billion people online, and now the s... (2017)
TED Published on Feb 21, 2017 How do we make sense of today's political divisions? In a wide-ranging conversation full of insight, historian Yu... (2017)
Will artificial intelligence change what it means to be human? Cancer physician, researcher, and author Siddhartha Mukherjee joins the podcast to h... (2023)
Listen to this episode from The Joy of Why on Spotify. Making living cells blink fluorescently like party lights may sound frivolous. But the demon... (2023)
“There was a lot of hype about VR ad then it seemed to go pretty quiet. So where are we right now? Bigscreen founder Darshan Shankar and a16z gener... (2018)
From the chief economics commentator of the Financial Times, a magnificent reckoning with how and why the marriage between democracy and capitalism... (2023)
Goodreads reviews: "From one of our leading technology thinkers and writers, a guide through the twelve technological imperatives that will shape t... (2019)
Yuval Noah Harari, author of the critically-acclaimed New York Times bestseller and international phenomenon Sapiens, returns with an equally origi... (2019)
When asked simple questions about global trends—what percentage of the world’s population live in poverty; why the world’s population is increasing... (2018)
Superforecasting has 7,271 ratings and 617 reviews. "Everyone would benefit from seeing further into the future, whether buying stocks, craftin... (2018)